Cleaning Chicken Poop In Coop!

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eeiko321

eeiko321

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Sep 1, 2008
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hi guys

whats the best ways to clean a chicken coop from POOP?
and how often should it be done?


thanks guys
 
We have a Playhouse Coop and the bottom has a 2-3 layer of pine shavings. Once a week I just pick out the poo to compost it and the toss the shavings in a differentcompost pile because they take a long time to break down. The flat surfaces are scraped with a brush to remove dried poo.

The top layer of dirt in the run is scraped up and a fresh layer put down.

DE gets sprinkled on everything. This plan has worked pretty well but then we only hve three.

~Phyllis
 
We use straw inside and out and we just rake it up and re-do the layer on the ground. We also compost it for our fruit trees. Some weeks they poop WAY more than others too. I have been lucky, my ladies all seem to pee outside....
 
Step 1. Remove chickens.

Step 2. Shovel out litter.

Step 3. Power wash and deck brush with a bleach/water solution.

Step 4. Air dry.

Step 5. Insert clean litter.

Step 6. Insert chickens.

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I have a droppings box covered covered with 1/2 inch wire cloth that is below the roosts. I use a hoe to scrape the excess droppings into the box 1x/wk. The box below is filled with straw, once I hoe the droppings down I cover them and the now cleaned wire cloth with DE. I clean the box out every month in the winter, every other in the summer.
 

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